Anil Kapoor recalled how he was quite anxious before shooting for the climax of Subhash Ghai’s Taal.
Subhash Ghai’s musical blockbuster, Taal, is gearing up for a re-release in cinema halls tomorrow (September 27). The film which clocked 25 years in 2024, still enjoys a massive fanbase with its evergreen songs written by Anand Bakshi and composed by AR Rahman.
The film’s team recently gathered under a roof at an event organised by Radio Nasha in Mumbai. When Anil Kapoor took to the stage, he shared with the audience that he was quite stressed before shooting for the film’s climax sequence where his character Vikrant asks Mansi (Aishwarya Rai Bachchan) to go back to her lover Manav (Akshaye Khanna).
Anil revealed that director Subhash Ghai would often give him at the last moment, and he knew that this scene was going to be quite challenge. He then went on to recall how he called up Ghai the night before that sequence was to be shot, and told him that he won’t turn up for the shoot.
Anil said, “He (Subhash Ghai) knows me so well. He said, ‘Okay, don’t come. I will wait anyway.”
The next morning, when he woke up, he changed his mind and told his wife that he wants to give his best to that scene. However, as time passed by, he was so anxious and stressed that he called actress Padmini Kolhapure to perform reiki on him so that he could calm down a bit.
“Then it was 7 am..8 am.. I called Padmini Kolhapure to perform reiki on me. I was so stressed, so anxious and nervous. She came, she did reiki on me,” Anil recalled. The ‘Ram Lakhan’ actor further joked that he was worried that Subhash Ghai might give the scene to Akshaye Khanna, or flip it in favour of Aishwarya, so he decided to do that scene.
Anil revealed that he reached the sets at around 12.30-1 pm. Seeing him, Ghai asked him to first finish his lunch, and then they wrapped up that climax in two hours.
Taal was also dubbed and released in Tamil.
